Chrome will begin blocking some redirect links in an effort to crack down on particularly annoying web ads.
Google says that, starting with the Chrome 64 build, its browser will no longer automatically execute redirect links that are embedded in iframe code. This, the Chocolate Factory hopes, will help stop ads that redirect …

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Poor disclosure and intrusive advertising are becoming a bête noire for gamers who increasingly find themselves getting fragged by promos.
Adverts in gaming or advergaming systems are becoming more complex as marketeers resort to techniques that embed advertising deep enough so that earlier ad-blocking attempts no longer work …

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Uber has filed suit against one of its advertising partners, alleging it bilked the ride-sharing giant out of "tens of millions" of dollars.
The suit [PDF], filed in the Northern California US District Court, claims that Fetch Media billed Uber for more than $82.5m in mobile ads that were either not run or were not properly …

Facebook promises advertisers access to more US customers than actually exist.
That's according to an investment analyst who had long held that Facebook is misleading the market on what its actual digital reach is, and recommends a "sell" on the social media giant's stock.
Facebook has an extensive and sophisticated ad-buying …

A popular Chrome extension was hijacked earlier today to inject ads into browsers, and potentially run malicious JavaScript, after the plugin's creator was hacked.
Chris Pederick, maker of the Web Developer for Chrome extension, is urging anyone who uses his programming tool to update to version 0.5 or later. That's because …

The owner of Fark.com is furious at Google and wants it to reimburse him for five weeks of lost ads – thanks to a five-year-old story that featured a picture of a girl wrongly believed to be underage.
Drew Curtis has taken out his anger in a blog post on the long-running news aggregation website, having been overwhelmed with …

Cloudian object storage is being used to target Japanese drivers with focussed ads as they drive past a digital billboard.
Dentsu, a Japanese advertising supplier, has set up an experimental system on a road in the Tokyo area where road gantry-located video cameras capture images of vehicles and drivers. It features deep …

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Microsoft has added “non-security updates” to an Update Tuesday patch.
MS16-023, billed as a “Security update for Internet Explorer” and issued on March 8, includes six “General distribution release (GDR) fixes”.
Five are innocuous as they address glitches like “Empty textarea loses its closing tag in Internet Explorer 11 …

The Interactive Advertising Bureau – a powerful association of ad networks and marketing types that shift the vast majority of online adverts in the US – has finally noticed all the hate aimed at web advertising.
After months and months of malware-laden ads that exploit Adobe's screen-door-of-the-internet Flash, and the …

Companies can upload your email address to Google so when the internet goliath detects you surfing across the web, it can throw better-targeted adverts at you.
So if you buy a bike and give the store your email address, and the store gives that information to Google, the internet billboard giant can find the Google account …

Facebook has bought Mountain View, California-based product search engine TheFind for an undisclosed sum.
The outfit, founded in 2006, confirmed the takeover from Mark Zuckerberg's free content ad network in a statement on its website.
TheFind claimed to have helped 1 billion shoppers track down products using its service, …

Google is looking to cut down on the risk of attacks from web pages serving up unwanted downloads.
The company said on Monday that it will add security protections into Chrome, Ads and Google Search in an effort to keep users away from sites believed to be installing adware, browser toolbars and other nuisance programs.
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Twitter has reportedly inked a deal with Google so its tweets are once again embedded in the advertising giant's search results.
Twitter has 284 million active monthly users, apparently, and claims to have 185 billion unique views of tweets outside its website. However, slower user growth has prompted the company to look for …

The Advertising Standards Authority has rapped the knuckles of video bloggers for making it unclear when they’re actually recommending something and when they’ve been paid to hawk it to unsuspecting YouTubers.
Vloggers, as we’re apparently meant to call them now, are big business these days with stars like Blighty’s Zoella …

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Publishers across the web are seeing a huge surge in site load speeds, after Google's DoubleClick ad tech collapsed within the past hour.
At time of writing, Google was yet to respond to The Register's request for comment.
But its servers have clearly suffered a major meltdown.
Readers who don't use ad-blockers because they …

Photo filter and poster biz Instagram has started serving up those pic and video ads it has been promising for a while now, with marketing from folks like Disney and the CW starting today.
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The Facebook subsidiary said last year that it had “big ideas for the future” and they involved making money out of its user …

Snapchat has begun serving up adverts to its naked selfie despatching users in the USA.
The company said in a blog post on Friday that ads would debut for State-side netizens from today.
The messaging service was understood to be something of a haven for supposedly self-destructing naked selfies – until that is when around …

Apple has been granted a patent for a "second screen" scheme for providing associated content – ads, info, and the like – to a secondary device such as a smartphone or tablet when you're viewing content on your primary display, e.g. your big-screen TV.
Apple patent illustration for 'System and method for delivering companion …